Derek Walcott Quotes
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TV presenting isn't the hardest job in the world, and I've done all right financially out of it.
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You don't have to do everything from scratch. Nobody wants to make puff pastry!
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It's true that you need much time to get rid of the fat girl you once were, but you know I am sincerely grateful for my buttocks.
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Feminism encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.
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I think it is perfectly natural for any artist to admire intensely and love a young man. It is an incident in the life of almost every artist.
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Small ideas won't help Illinois' future.
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I'm a fast learner. I may not run as fast as I used to, but I think I still learn as fast.
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I'm ready to do something with Lady Gaga or Andrea Bocelli. I'm really grateful that nothing is out of the realm of possibility.
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I think everybody understands the fact that the right person will be cast for the role. So it's not theirs really to lose; they're just trying to find the right person.
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There is lasting kindness in Heaven when no kindness is found upon earth.
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My home is attached to a study - in fact, my home is my study, and I have a little room to sleep in. I need to write looking onto the street or a landscape. Looking at reality from some distance gives me romantic visions.
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Playing further up the pitch, you have more opportunities to score and provide assists, and it's something I liked right from the start.
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We want every human being in the womb to be safe, not have these babies be killed to solve some dilemma.
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The writer can choose what he writes about but he cannot choose what he is able to make live.
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Sports, as a media property, is increasingly valuable because it's something you have to have live. As a result, we're a better touch point for sponsors and advertisers because our commercials typically don't get zapped out.
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Every child deserves to grow up knowing their potential and feeling confident that they won't fall at the first hurdle - that they cope with life's setbacks.
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Ed is very sexy because his emotions are really there - not forced.
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My operas usually come from musical ideas rather than ideas about subject matter.
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If you're playing live, I like to think of the ensemble, whether it's the duet or a forty piece orchestra, as one person. And the entire audience, whether it's twelve people or twelve thousand at Madison Square Garden, is the other person. The two of you are going to dance together tonight.
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Especially in comedies, I think a lot of time the female characters are there to provide a balance for guys.
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I don't want anybody to feel like they're different.
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I have been blessed to see visions of eternity; and events in my future that have been important for me to foresee, have been revealed to me.
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I feel blessed that I was gifted.
